From Variety... Their info about the film is a little old (It's at the Pit), but the casting news is new...

"Sienna Miller is the first thesp to enlist in Paramount Pictures' big-budget tentpole "G.I. Joe."
British actress will play the film's female lead, described as a raven-haired baroness and sexy femme fatale skilled in espionage.

Stephen Sommers directs the live-action film based on the Hasbro toys, comicbook and TV series.

Paramount, which has set a mid-February start date, has slotted the film for an Aug. 7, 2009, release.

Story is set at Brussels-based GIJOE, an acronym for the Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, and revolves around an international co-ed force of operatives who use high-tech equipment to battle Cobra, an evil org headed by a Scottish arms dealer.

Brussels based? Oh dear, at least they could have set it up in the western hemisphere. Look I'm not even American but GI JOE is the Real American Hero, why alter it from that? It could still be a global task force and be based in New York. Some American film makers are way to caught up in politics.............

Brussels based? Oh dear, at least they could have set it up in the western hemisphere. Look I'm not even American but GI JOE is the Real American Hero, why alter it from that? It could still be a global task force and be based in New York. Some American film makers are way to caught up in politics.............

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I agree, I'm not a typical 'WTF killing my childhood Mother-fers....' person, but with the types of changes that they are talking about may make it difficult to resemble anything that made gijoe what it is today.

Hopefully they cast Danny Trejo as....well....somebody. Just give him some knives and a machette. Maybe he could help Mary-Kate and Ashley with their acting Really I love Danny Trejo, why the hell does only Rodriguez use him?

Hopefully they cast Danny Trejo as....well....somebody. Just give him some knives and a machette. Maybe he could help Mary-Kate and Ashley with their acting Really I love Danny Trejo, why the hell does only Rodriguez use him?

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your danny trejo fixation disturbs me. you know if you end up in prison with danny hed just make you his bitch right?